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In 1969, hippies and the Vietnam War were abstractions to me, glimpses from photos in an occasional Life Magazine. I had not heard about the...

2013-05-15T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar In 1969, hippies and the Vietnam War were abstractions to me, glimpses from photos in an occasional Life Magazine. I had not heard about the... b7e6708b-c52c-4654-b4e3-9b69297e7c58

My antennae go up whenever any education initiative is associated with radicals, like Bill Ayers. We still don’t know why Bill Ayers was at an education conference with Arne Duncan and a representative from Achieve, the well-connected, Washington-based non-profit organizing this effort to nationalize education.

2013-04-18T11:04:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar My antennae go up whenever any education initiative is associated with radicals, like Bill Ayers. We still don’t know why Bill Ayers was at an... 317baeeb-ebe9-423f-abfc-f92c243cfd42

When the radicals start defending “standards,” that’s when you have to become suspicious—of the standards. That is the case with Obama’s federalized education plan called Common Core.

2013-04-05T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar When the radicals start defending “standards,” that’s when you have to become suspicious—of the standards. That is the case with Obama’s... f67e4a15-5626-4049-a638-9eec563daea3

First we have a college student ordered to stomp on a piece of paper with the word Jesus written on it. But on Holy Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education sent out this video from the Teaching Channel with a seventh-grader face-down on a table in the front of the class waving his arms and legs to illustrate a crucifixion. This video, like the other ones this non-profit produces, is intended to show teachers exciting ways to incorporate Common Core, the federal education program of the Obama administration.

2013-04-01T12:18:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar First we have a college student ordered to stomp on a piece of paper with the word Jesus written on it. But on Holy Thursday, the U.S.... 758ce60b-4b77-4f2f-8ff2-f80259d65d21

Where to begin with the screed in The New Republic, “Original Sin: Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people,” mislabeled “an historical investigation”?

2013-02-16T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Where to begin with the screed in The New Republic, “Original Sin: Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people,” mislabeled... f08ff314-a197-4a9a-89ac-719d4fbcefdc

In 2009, during the economic “crisis,” states were offered part of the $4.35 billion in stimulus funds in a hurried contest called Race to the Top. After the initial application, they were told that they would have to adhere to national standards and testing called Common Core, sight unseen, and without any legislative input. Forty-eight states signed on initially; today, 45 states are committed to CC—although citizens and teachers are organizing against it.

2013-01-19T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Ask any college freshman what he knows about communism and he will likely engage in a word association game. “The red scare, McCarthyism,” he... c03d7cdf-6941-4c2b-8ea0-51221d19dd46

Liberal media outlets presented President Obama as a competent and compassionate leader in the time of a natural disaster, last week’s Hurricane Sandy. Some attribute Obama’s slight bump up in the polls to the hurricane.

2012-11-05T12:30:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Liberal media outlets presented President Obama as a competent and compassionate leader in the time of a natural disaster, last week’s Hurricane... fcf54ba4-1ec3-4c28-975f-00b228da0c59

Sorry, fact checkers at Associated Press: you are wrong about Barack Obama’s claim that Mitt Romney’s accusation that Obama went on an “apology tour” was a “whopper” (of a lie). You sniffed, “Romney has repeatedly and wrongly accused the president of traveling the world early in his presidency and apologizing for U.S. behavior. Obama didn’t say ‘sorry’ in those travels.”

2012-10-24T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Sorry, fact checkers at Associated Press: you are wrong about Barack Obama’s claim that Mitt Romney’s accusation that Obama went on an “apology... fd2e775f-1619-48cf-a89c-6c069486239c

Vice President Joe Biden, in his debate with Congressman Paul Ryan last Thursday, attempted one of many of the strategies liberals use when debating conservatives. The American public got a great display of advancements in cosmetic dentistry. The Vice President, however, failed to pull off the most popular of liberal debating techniques.

2012-10-16T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Vice President Joe Biden, in his debate with Congressman Paul Ryan last Thursday, attempted one of many of the strategies liberals use when... 13dc664f-d988-4051-84c6-d74756b6bc08

Recently announced Vice Presidential pick Paul Ryan is being called a radical by the left for his fiscal policies. But no one would expect that anyone would imply that the Roman Catholic family man would be a Black Panther. Yet, the New York Times ran the headline "Paul Ryan, Black Panther?" on the day after the announcement was made. This was in a series called “Historically Corrected.”

2012-08-21T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Recently announced Vice Presidential pick Paul Ryan is being called a radical by the left for his fiscal policies. But no one would expect that... 9c2ec988-7dff-4208-b001-ed0f11cdbabb

It was while I was driving from Florida, where I gave a presentation on education to citizens, that I heard from talk show hosts about the abuse by North Carolina High School social studies teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely towards a student who dared to challenge her diatribe about Mitt Romney’s alleged “bullying” incident from 1965.

2012-05-23T00:01:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar It was while I was driving from Florida, where I gave a presentation on education to citizens, that I heard from talk show hosts about the abuse... 28805b2b-7a91-465b-81ec-facc442ed779

Why would GALEO (Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials), which lobbies against enforcement of immigration laws, thank “students” and “educators” (among others) for defeating Georgia bills restricting illegal aliens? Their April 9 newsletter joyfully announces in a headline “ZERO anti-immigrant [sic] legislation from GA passed.”

2012-04-13T12:32:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Why would GALEO (Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials), which lobbies against enforcement of immigration laws, thank... 530f8b97-aa8b-4f69-9416-c11bc0dcc603

What happens when an education editor wants to advance her own liberal agenda, even as her newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, brags about “Bringing Balance to Opinions”?

2012-03-14T13:41:00-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar What happens when an education editor wants to advance her own liberal agenda, even as her newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, brags... 84705013-3190-4f0a-8b4e-59ed0186b9c1

In an age and time when I find most of my college students unfamiliar with the story of Adam and Eve or the origin of the phrase, “judge not lest ye be judged,” I enter discussions about religion with some caution. Almost universally my students do not believe that religious belief is necessary for morality, and seem to be offended by the very concept.

2012-02-22T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar In an age and time when I find most of my college students unfamiliar with the story of Adam and Eve or the origin of the phrase, “judge not lest... 0645bff8-4ad8-4aa6-9ed3-1109ffe1b799

It was right around the same time that Marc Lamont Hill (“Professor, Author, Speaker, Public Intellectual,” according to his website) claimed to Bill O’Reilly that conservatives and Republicans are incapable of “performing intellectuality” that I noticed the dissection of Newt Gingrich’s 1971 dissertation, first in the riposte by another public intellectual, Maureen Dowd.

2011-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar It was right around the same time that Marc Lamont Hill (“Professor, Author, Speaker, Public Intellectual,” according to his website) claimed to... 17c39e4c-287d-456d-a939-8cdbf7ba3955

Eric Alterman, Senior Fellow and “distinguished professor of English” at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, asks in his most recent article, “Why Do the Mainstream Media Like the Tea Party More than Occupy Wall Street?”

2011-12-08T15:28:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Dissident Prof is getting whiplash every time she visits the website for the Center for American Progress. Eric Alterman, Senior Fellow and... 454c64f1-f04d-4e01-badc-2457e783a161

In a turn-around that made the Dissident Prof’s head spin more than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist, the Center for American Progress, the think tank co-founded by George Soros, posted several articles and held conferences praising (gasp!) the founding fathers. The respectful reference comes in an article posted last month on the organization’s web page, and co-authored by the organization’s longtime President and CEO, now chairman of the board, John Podesta, President Clinton’s Chief of Staff.

2011-11-29T14:35:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar In a turn-around that made the Dissident Prof’s head spin more than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist, the Center for American... ba33d350-8a8d-482d-8dd5-3aaa06382279

Students have been primed to engage in such protest activities as those in Wisconsin on behalf of those who hand out their grades.

2011-03-15T13:20:50-04:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar Many of the signs at the recent Wisconsin protests against Governor Scott Walker’s efforts to scale back public union power reminded us that “if... 93bb161c-c0d9-4711-9da1-1088a685cbd8

For college students at the memorial service for the victims of the January 8th shooting at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ event the benediction by a longhaired college professor invoking “masculine energy” and “feminine energy” that somehow coalesces in a magical middle confirms the validity of their lessons in multiculturalism and the virtue of primitivism.

2011-01-20T10:32:35-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar For college students at the memorial service for the victims of the January 8th shooting at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ event the... 7cbfb3fc-bfab-4f0f-b523-b80faaf72f8e

The media, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Democrat politicians are predictably using the tragic shooting of Gabrielle Giffords by what appears to be a mentally deranged young man to make political points and clamp down on opposing speech.

2011-01-11T00:01:00-05:00 2013-05-26T04:40:05Z Mary Grabar The media, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Democrat politicians are predictably using the tragic shooting of Gabrielle Giffords by what appears...